Course content for First Coast Technical College’s Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Heating Technology program: History and concepts of refrigeration and air conditioning; matter and heat behavior; fluids, pressure, and refrigerants; employability skills; entrepreneurship; safety; care of tools and accessories; refrigeration servicing and testing equipment; basic electricity and electrical components; residential control system heating/cooling; piping, tubing and fittings; evaporators, compressors, condensers and metering devices; accessories; mechanical/electronic filtration and air handling fans; codes and standards; air conditioning start-up and service problem analysis; heating start-up, checkout, and operation; basic air-conditioning; refrigeration cycle/diagrams; fossil fuel heating servicing and testing equipment; refrigeration-piping materials and fabrication; refrigeration pipe sizing and troubleshooting; electrical components/motors; solid state electronics; valves and regulators; sensing devices/heating controls; commercial and engineered control systems; psychometrics; central station systems; install, maintain, and repair residential air conditioning systems; electrical generation and distribution; refrigeration load; metering devices; commercial compressors; commercial condensers; commercial evaporators; commercial accessories; commercial refrigeration systems application; refrigerated storage systems; ice machines.

Students who complete the entire program are prepared for employment as Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Heating Technicians. Students who complete portions of the course are prepared for employment as: Air Conditioning Installer Helpers, Technician Assistants, and Air Conditioning Service Technicians.

Course content for First Coast Technical College’s Refrigeration Technology program: History and concepts of refrigeration and air conditioning; matter and heat behavior; fluids, pressures, and refrigerants; employability skills; entrepreneurship; safety; use and care of tools and accessories; operate refrigeration servicing and testing equipment; basic electricity and electrical components; residential control system heating/cooling; piping, tubing and fittings; evaporators, compressors, condensers, and metering devices; accessories; mechanical/electronic filtration and air handling fans; codes and standards; air conditioning start-up and service problem analysis; heating start-up, check out and operation; basic air conditioning; refrigeration cycle/diagrams; fossil fuel heating-servicing and testing equipment; refrigeration-piping materials and fabrication; refrigeration pipe sizing and troubleshooting; electrical components/motors; solid state electronics; valves and regulators; sensing devices/heating controls; commercial and engineered control systems; psychometrics; central station systems; install, maintain and repair residential air conditioning systems; basic air conditioning and refrigeration skills; soldering and brazing; basic refrigeration fundamentals; basic electrical skills; installation and servicing of air conditioning and refrigeration electrical systems; heat gain/heat loss; design skills; communication, math and science skills.

Students who complete the entire program are prepared for employment as Refrigeration Technicians. Students who complete portions of the course are prepared for employment as Air Conditioner Installer Helpers, Technician Assistants, and Light Commercial Refrigeration Technicians.